Rather than cut or prune said expo-dumps, the author self-flagellates at his readers: "It can hardly be expected that anyone will consent to go through with a fiction that offers so little of allurement in its first pages".
It is expected that most patients who consent will be enrolled into the study within two weeks of their initial assessment (screening visit).
On the one hand, it does seem reasonable to expect that some consent processes may result in the withholding of consent.
Since some of the companions are likely to be also patients, it would be expected that the observed difference in consenting choices according to health status may be an underestimate.
Since altruism requires wanting and willing the act, one would expect that presumed consent will be disfavored.
It is therefore expected that fewer patients will be willing to sign consent.
Therefore, based on a monthly estimate of 27 admissions and an estimate that roughly 67% of residents will consent, we expect that it will take approximately 15 months to accrue the necessary number of residents.
Because we expect that some patients will provide consent for our study but may opt out of surgery for a variety of reasons, we will compare the ITT analysis to the results for patients who actually undergo surgery (i.e., attrition analysis).
However, as we followed the recommendations of [ 47] and [ 48] regarding the best implantation of online informed consent procedures, we expect that the participants will read the study information in full and provide informed consent.
In case reports and other studies publishing identifying information, it is expected that appropriate consent procedures will need to be examined in more detail in the future.
